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title: Ngl, how were the suitors lined up at the gate? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, how were the suitors lined up at the gate? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

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Ngl, how were the suitors lined up at the gate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, line up · **To what, where:** suitors, gate

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1748-pg640-part72/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t5:1
# text = Ngl, how were the suitors lined up at the gate?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
7	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the suitors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **line up** | participle |  | the suitors *not said here* |  | the gate |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
rows of six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t5:o1:1
# text = rows of six
1	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in one line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t5:o2:1
# text = in one line
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
packed in tight rows of ten, each pressed against the next

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t5:o3:1
# text = packed in tight rows of ten, each pressed against the next
1	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | participle |  |  |  | tight rows of ten |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in row=Destination |
| 2 | **press** | participle · passive | tight rows of ten *not said here* | each |  |  |  | against the next | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
rows of six standing close together by the gate wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t5:o4:1
# text = rows of six standing close together by the gate wall
1	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
5	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | rows of six *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the gate wall; together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wall=Location |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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